Mereology
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌmɪəɹiˈɒləd͡ʒi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mereology is a noun meaning (logic) The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.
Meaning
(logic) The discipline which deals with the relationship of parts with their respective wholes.
Example Sentences
In 1926 Tarski drew Leśniewski's attention to the similarity existing between his mereology and Whitehead's theory of events.[…]In the United States, mereology is known as the “calculus of individuals” — a designation that is etymologically somewhat paradoxical, since the objects of mereology are anything but indivisible individua.
2001, Lech Polkowski, Spatial Reasoning via Rough Sets, Wojciech Ziarko, Yiyu Yao (editors), Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing: 2nd International Conference RSCTC 2000, Revised Papers, Springer, LNAI 2005, page 479, In [13] a new paradigm for approximate reasoning, rough mereology, has been introduced. Rough mereology is based on the notion of a part to a degree and thus falls in the province of part–based mereologies.
Word Forms
- mereologies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include extensional, mereotopology, mereologist, mesology, morology, monsterology.
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